BAILEY BROWN NEW FACULTY SPOTLIGHT:

Bailey Morgan Brown Mitchell will begin work as an Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture this fall after serving as an Adjunct Professor this academic year. Last fall she co-taught Intro to Architecture and Honors for Intro with Suzanne Bilbeisi, and was part of the Design Studio II teaching team. In the spring, she led the freshman Honors session for Design Studio I, and was also a member of the Design Studio I teaching team.

She joins the OSU School of Architecture having completed two masters degrees from the Harvard Graduate School of Design: a Master of Architecture degree as well as a Master of Design Studies degree. Her recent research work includes two funded grants related to tribal housing and sovereignty: (1) Cherokee Nation Affordable Housing: Working within Complex Networks of Power and (2) ‘Temporary’ Homes and Permanent Cultural Hierarchies: Variations in Zoning Reflect and Create Housing Inequities in Rural Communities. Both are funded by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. She also recently completed a paper titled “Pedagogies Toward Sovereign Indigenous Futures: 10 Strategies for Early Design Educators” which she presented at the National Conference on the Beginning Design Student in May. Bailey intends to extend these research efforts through grants, exhibitions, lectures, and projects while focusing her teaching on furthering the legacy of a rigorous fundamental design education based upon timeless principles and an emphasis on the sense of craft for beginning design students.

This summer, Bailey will be an instructor for the Discover Architecture workshop and several other summer outreach programs. This coming year she will be continuing her work in the beginning design studios and foundational coursework level. She hopes to lead the Urban USA travel study program next year, with a focus on providing that opportunity to sophomore students so that they may begin the process of seeing and analyzing great architecture firsthand.

Bailey is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and grew up on her family’s tribal allotment land in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma before attending Oklahoma State University for her Bachelor of Architecture degree. Before returning to OSU, Bailey was a designer at Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects in New Haven, CT, a teaching fellow in the Harvard College, as well as a public high school English teacher in Sallisaw, Oklahoma.